Bienvenido a NHL. The most recent was last year, when the St. Home teams are in Game 7 of the Cup Final, though road teams have won each of the past three. Louis Blues 4, Boston Bruins 1. Third-period goals by Brayden Schenn and Zach Sanford put the Blues ahead , and a goal by Boston's Matt Grzelcyk with remaining served only to cost rookie goalie Jordan Binnington a shutout.
Binnington, whose arrival in early January keyed the Blues' climb, finished with 32 saves and became the first rookie in NHL history to win 16 games in one playoff year.
The Blues became the first team to win the Cup after being last in the League standings at least 30 games into a season. The Bruins won the Stanley Cup for the first time in 39 years by becoming the first visiting team to have a shutout in Game 7 of the Final. Boston goalie Tim Thomas made 37 saves for his second shutout of the series.
He won the Conn Smythe Trophy after allowing eight goals in seven games. Talbot scored twice in the second period to put the Penguins ahead Jonathan Ericsson 's goal with left in the third period cut Pittsburgh's lead to , but Fleury made the best of his 23 saves when he robbed Detroit's Nicklas Lidstrom with one second remaining.
Aaron Ward gave Carolina a lead at of the first period. Frantisek Kaberle made it at of the second and Justin Williams scored into an empty net for the clincher after Fernando Pisani's goal into the third period cut the lead to The Lightning had to win Game 6 on the road to get back home for a Game 7.
Fedotenko made it with a power-play goal into the first period, then gave Tampa Bay a lead when he scored at of the second. Craig Conroy's goal at of the third was the only shot to beat goalie Nikolai Khabibulin.
I haven't got over [losing in the Cup Final to the Chicago Blackhawks in ], this one hurts even more. We'll see what the future brings, but that would be really, really hard, a really tough summer. And like I said, losses like that, it's hard to get over and you just kind of have to learn to live with it. After getting all the way to Game 7, mostly on the strength of an all-time performance from goalie Tuukka Rask , Boston was unable to solve Blues goalie Jordan Binnington in the end.
It was unable to get the production it needed from its top line, unable to slash through a St. Louis defense that clamped down as the game wore on. He would have liked to have made more saves, to have done more, the way he had throughout the first 23 games of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. But it didn't work out that way. Rask allowed a goal by Blues center Ryan O'Reilly at of the first period off a deflection of a shot by defenseman Jay Bouwmeester , followed by a goal by defenseman Alex Pietrangelo with eight seconds remaining in the period after a bad change by Marchand.
Louis had scored two goals on four shots in the period, and the Bruins had been unable to break through on But, still, they believed. They believed after the first period and after the second, and it was only after the Blues scored two more goals -- by center Brayden Schenn at and forward Zach Sanford , a Massachusetts native, at -- to go up that the belief ever wavered. Even in the regular season, comebacks were in their DNA, at times waiting until the final moments to pull everything together and make something special happen.
Louis Blues and Jaden Schwartz 17 of the St. Louis Blues celebrate with Jordan Binnington 50 of the St. After dominating the first period and being stoned by Jordan Binnington on every point-blank look, the Bruins surrendered two late-period tallies and never recovered. And you know we tried to create, we had good chances, and [Binnington] made the saves when they needed.
O'Reilly gave the Blues a lead at of the first period, scoring from between the hash marks on a deflection of Jay Bouwmeester 's shot from the point. He became the first player to score in four straight Cup Final games since Wayne Gretzky did so with the Edmonton Oilers in Video: Clutch Performance: Blues acquisitions pay off huge. O'Reilly was the leading scorer of the Cup Final with nine points five goals, four assists and finished tied for the most points in the playoffs with 23 eight goals, 15 points with Bruins forward Brad Marchand nine goals, 14 assists.
We all believed we could do it. He led the way. Pietrangelo made it with eight seconds left in the first. He scored on a forehand-backhand deke with a shot over Rask's blocker from the slot. The Bruins outshot the Blues in the first period and through two periods but did not score. Binnington, who played one NHL game three seasons ago prior to Dec.
Schenn made it at of the third period, scoring on a one-timer off a pass from Vladimir Tarasenko. Sanford extended the lead to at
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